Monday, June 12, 2017

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Back in April of last year, we linked to a story about the Alverson Taylor building being up for sale. Now, a little birdie told us "that Alverson Taylor's building on west Charleston is being foreclosed on and that the firm's name has been ripped off the building and they are being or have already been kicked out. Word is that they stopped paying the mortgage on the building two years ago. Looks like those notoriously low salaries for the associates aren't low enough." Anyone have details?

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While I cannot comment on the foreclosure, on Friday the Nevada Supreme Court issued an Order in 72366 RYAN VS. STATE, DIV. OF INS. in which sanctions against Alverson Taylor were discussed. In it, Alverson asked that the sanctions be vacated because, in effect, they are moving offices and cannot circulate papers in the state of disarray. Ouch.

In a judicial foreclosure, the creditor/plaintiff has to record a Lis Pendens on the property almost immediately after the lawsuit is filed - and I don't see one attached to the parcel number (163-03-101-013).

This is a US Bank tactic. They get a Receiver to collect the rents first, then amend to commence foreclosure. In light of the fact that there is not even a Notice of Default recorded, I suspect this was done to get the cellular rents which appear to have been added to the property pending the foreclosure.

Over the past 20+ years I've been in the ATM&S space probably 50 or more times for various depositions, early arbitration conferences, 16.1 conferences, mediations, and arbitration hearings. That building has always had just a dark, unhappy pall over it, even when it first opened. Nobody ever seemed pleasant or even content in that place, least of all the head ghoul, Prince Eric. Just an uncomfortable place. Whoever buys that building should have it exorcized before moving in.

Pro tip to bosses: if you have terrible turn over, try being nice to your employees. I'd gladly take my lowest paying lawyer job (a clerkship) over my second highest paying lawyer job (at a Las Vegas "biglaw" firm) because the boss at the low paying job was a great person and I enjoyed going to work, and the biglaw boss was a douche.

9:19-- You presume that ATM&S does not want the turnover. It not only wants the turnover but needs the turnover because otherwise people start wanting petty demands like raises and respect. Come in, get chewed up for $10,000 more a year than other reasonable firms would pay and then out the door after year 3. Its a system that made Bruce a great deal of money.

I agree with 9:19, I was also a clerk and would rather do that than some of my higher paying law jobs. Although my judge was a bit difficult at times, it was overall pretty relaxed compared to some big law offices. And I dont feel sorry for ATMS, maybe just the employees. But the partners can eat a fat ding dong for theiry shoddy practice and low pay

I would like to throw a despise and demise party for ATMS. I will provide the booze, the Mormon partners need to get soused for not paying their bills, and we can have the RJC bailiffs serve the cocktail wienies.

Can we please have a forum topic on the absolute nightmare that Odyssey/Wiznet/Attorney Shithole has become? It is the biggest nightmare systemwide that I have been party to since Shirley Parraguirre decided to finance the e-filing system by charging only the construction defect cases to e-file.

Please. It is not unuseable. Yes, it is different than the previous version and there are a few quirks, but there are also some nice things about it. Somehow my staff, who I would expect would have problems with even the most rudimentary system, have managed to make the transition with minimal issues.

I haven't had a lot of problems with the new system, but I did run into one. When trying to file a motion with exhibits, I uploaded the motion and then... couldn't find any place to upload exhibits. Got on the phone with Tyler and they said that they had the technology to allow it, but our courts didn't want it. So I could upload them all as a separate document, which I did. The next day, it was rejected because that wasn't what the clerks wanted. I called the clerk's office and was told that it was Tyler's fault that there was no way to upload the exhibits.

If anyone's wondering, the best way to do it is to create one file with all exhibits already attached, and then upload that.

We (Alverson Taylor) are in a temp space that was a call center. They finally got the a/c working. Those were a fun 2 weeks with not enough a/c. Brought an entirely new meaning to sweatshop. Dress code is out the window. Weekend wear without holes. Our cubicles are like a library squares. Some have printers under desk. Most attorneys/parlegals working from home. Could be worse. Then another move at end of October to permanent space.

ATM&N Investments, a Joint Venture, is the owner of record of the real property comprising the Alverson Taylor offices. US Bank filed a complaint and requested a receiver of June 6, 2017. On June 7, 2017, an ex parte order appointing a receiver was entered by Judge Johnson. Case No. A-17-756431-C.

I don't get the reference. I know that Stan Musial is a baseball hall of famer, and great hitter for the Cardinals. But I don't understand the reference. Someone please explain it to me because this week I am exhausted and pretty much brain dead.

Yes Stan Hunterton is running OBC like Operation Strikeforce. He was tasked with making discipline cases move faster; they are not moving faster (they are actually taking twice as long as they did one year ago). He was charged with making cases less cookie cutter; now the sanctions are all over the board and generally relatively capricious. It is well known by OBC that you talk to that if your IOLTA does not balance by more than $100, Stan will want to pull your ticket.

"Financial Summary (Actual) Net Operating Income $800,000" Not anymore. That means that they were claiming lease income (net) of $66,666.67 per month. And you say the firm had no money. Huh. Can't imagine that.

Kurt Bonds at ATMS is a good guy. A lot of lawyers over there are shitty to deal with, and almost all of them are very sloppy. I always thought he stood above the ATMS crowd. I hope this turns out okay for him.

Seems like a great business model to me. Rake it in, blow it on fixtures and furniture and partner compensation, wait 'til the landlord won't give you another week, go across the street only with anybody still earning and the cheaper hourly staff, start over.

Based purely on what I've been able to scrounge from the dark corners of the interwebs, he was a partner for the shittiest law firm in the state when his dad passed away. Shortly thereafter, his name disappeared from said shitty firm's website. A comment in April 2016 said that he quit (as compared to being fired) and that he got married. NV bar lists him as being active, although he hasn't been involved recently in any Clark County district court cases or federal cases in the District of Nevada. So, connecting the dots, I'd have to say.... I don't have a clue.

The building on Charleston should be destroyed. It was built on land that has a serious gas line leak, that Alverson refused to address. People who worked at the law firm would complain of feeling sick, and a terrible odor all over the building. They were ignored.

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